Overview
- The visit is scheduled for Tuesday, June 23, and local officials and a public registration site list it as an official White House event.
- Republican U.S. Reps. Dan Meuser and Ryan Mackenzie praised the visit as support for workers and local manufacturing, and both are expected to attend.
- Mack Defense won a U.S. Army contract last year worth up to $221.8 million and received $47 million in the latest Defense appropriations, facts local leaders cite to show economic benefit.
- The stop lands in the Lehigh Valley, where the 7th District is rated a toss-up and the race between Rep. Ryan Mackenzie and Democrat Bob Brooks could help determine control of the U.S. House.
- Mack Trucks is a long-established maker of heavy trucks now owned by the Volvo Group that assembles U.S. and Canadian-market vehicles in the Lehigh Valley, and both parties have used visits to the plant to frame manufacturing policy and jobs.